Preliminary Task - Brainstorm & Storyboard

This my brainstorm, showing the ideas that we (myself and Alexandra) both thought of for our preliminary task, such as the setting, the locations possible for filming, the genre of our piece, costume and the lighting. There were several ideas for the script of our piece, however, we made several changes to the script to make it flow easier and we also changed some ideas around the shots to use within certain points during the task. We also discussed the locations of where our piece would be filmed, whether it would be better for the piece to use a science lab or one of the media rooms for the scene, as it does involve a detective and a lab worker exchanging dialogue. We discussed what the actors should wear as costume and what costume would be suitable to use for the characters. As it is a detective and a lab worker, they would both be in formal clothes, such as a suit, but the lab worker would be in a lab coat, showing him clearly to be someone working within a lab environment.

After this, we began, together, on our storyboards. We both drew different parts of the storyboard, discussing it as we went and making sure we both knew exactly how we were going to shoot this. I started on the first opening shots of the detective walking through the corridor and opening the door, entering the room. Alexandra, then continued this showing the shots of the detective and the lab worker in the room.

We decided that we wanted very quick shots, showing a sense of urgency and suspense within the task. The shots would become longer as the dialogue was being delivered, concentrating on it, and also making sure that the actor speaking at the time has a lot of lead space to make it clear that the conversation is taking place between the two of them, as well as making sure the 180 degree rule is not broken whilst the shot is taking place. Next lesson, we are starting to film our pieces.

Final Script

"What was the result?" - Detective (small pause)
"Well, he was poisioned." - Lab Worker
"(impatiently) And?" - Detective
"Arsenic, as predicted. The post-mortem proves it." - Lab Worker
(Detective looking suspiciously at Lab Worker)
"Of course, you would know that, wouldn't you? Because you did it." - Detective